Re: [PATCH 03/15] tracing: Add a free on close control mechanismfor buffer_size_kb

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 13:49 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/17/366
> > 
> > I didn't really like adding another file to the debugfs system, and 
> > recommended the ioctl. It seemed like a nice "unix" fit. But if you 
> > want to go back to the Vaibhav's original method, which will stay 
> > in the frame of "human-parseable and scripted". We could do that.
> 
> Yes, i think so - the *only* point of the /debug/tracing/ muck is 
> that it's scriptable and human parseable. If Google wants to use it 
> for more than that then they should help us enhance the perf syscall 
> ABI for tracing ...

Hi Vaibhav,

Sorry for the spin around, but could you resubmit your original patch?

Thanks!

-- Steve


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